Here we have a new Sam Baker show. This one includes songs from all three albums of the Mercy Trilogy....including the latest Cotton. These are even more stripped down versions of his songs...and man are these SONGS! I've read that Sam takes a long time to write his songs because he crafts them....he chooses the perfect words for each song. It shows. Sound on this one is great, and it's a song heavy show. Sam comments repeatedly that it's the fastest show he's ever done, joking about his long windedness saying he once played an hour set in Texas and only got 4 songs in.If you haven't picked up Cotton and are a fan of Sam's other albums...what are you waiting for? It's a continuation of Mercy and Pretty World.
Also I have another new Sam Baker that is about twice as long as this one. Lots of talking, really interesting. I will post it later if there is interest in the comments for it. (that means comment if whether you want me to post it or not).
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YES, please post it I love his stories
ReplyDeleteI am the taper and original uploader of this show on Dimeadozen. Like with all my recordings I specifically asked NOT to share it in MP3!
ReplyDeleteObviously you have no respect for my wishes!
Scdegraaf
Scdegraaf, sorry to offend you. I just don't get the whole "DON'T SHARE IN MP3" thing. FLAC's take up too much space are not playable in most media players. Which is where I'm guessing most folks that read this blog listen to their music. The way I look at is that I'm saving them from having to convert the FLAC files to MP3 themselves.
ReplyDeleteAgain, sorry. I just think FLACs are more trouble than they are worth. I would be interested in what the readers think. I'm sure we could work some kind of compromise.
Thanks for taping this BTW, cause it's a great show.
TS
Whether FLACs are more trouble than they are worth is an opinion. We can discuss it and your readers may have an opinion about it and you want to spare your readers the trouble and bandwidth, but my point is I don't want "my" recordings shared in MP3. If somebody converts them for their own personal use, fine, but please keep them to yourself.
ReplyDeleteApart from my preferences a danger is sooner or later somebody reconverts the MP3's to WAVE and then somebody else uploads them to a tracker for lossless files and pollutes the lossless pool.
I don't know how many % of the supposed lossless pool is polluted this way, but much more than you'd expect.
I don't know what kind of compromise you have in mind, but you can contact me via Dime's PM system.
YES, please post it I also love his stories. I could listen to him for hours. Mx
ReplyDeleteApart from the sound quality issues, which have been debated and will continue to be debated elsewhere, there is the issue of trust and observing the original taper's wishes. The original taper specifically asked you NOT to share it in MP3. But you went ahead and ignored this request.
ReplyDeleteI am the taper of the Luminaire show which I presume is the longer show to which you refer. I did not include the "do not share in MP3" request on the torrent, but I will make that request now. I will also include the request on any future shows that I share. If you are unable to comply with the request, then I will have to reconsider whether I will continue to share my recordings with others on Dime. Everyone will then be the loser.
Please post anything by Sam. There is no better songwriter out there today than him. Thanks for this great post, and looking forward to more.
ReplyDeleteWhy do these FLAC posters think that the music is about them and not the artist and the sharing of the music with a wider and more interested audience? I hate having to convert FLAC so I can use them and will most often pass on them. FLAC heads, get a life. It's about the music, not your elitist attitudes.
ReplyDeleteI keep laughing about phrases as "but my point is I don't want "my" recordings shared in MP3". If you don't want that, share it only with people in your own circle. At the moment files appear on the net, they are free. I ALWAYS convert FLACS in MP3, regardless the request not to do. I'm sorry people, you don't want that, don't share them in the first place.
ReplyDeleteTrust me, I know how you feel as many of my photos I use on my websites (where I make my daily money) are stolen by people who are too lazy to take their own pics, let alone the content which gets stolen because even more people too smegging lazy to write them themselves (this includes "professional" websites as Tripadvisor).
However, the web is a big thing. Stuff goes round. Like I said, you don't want your FLACS been converted? Trade them on DVD with your friends and agree with them they don't convert or put them on the net.
With all respect to all tapers, (I have taped hundreds of concerts in Holland in the late 80's to mid 90's), I am grateful you guys tape shows, but stop complaining about Flac to mp3.
Peter (I don't publish my comment anonymous too, as that totally STINKS)
Sorry for posting anonymous, I have nothing to hide and everybody may know my identity. Havi ng no account here I thought that was the thing to do and also now I could only post anonymous.
ReplyDeleteI have nothing against convertion to MP3 FOR YOUR OWN USE. If people find it easier for their iPods or whatever, go ahead. My request was not to SHARE in MP3.
I realize once recordings are out on the internet they are beyond my control, but in this case I know who SHARES my recording in MP3: the owner of this site. He knows I requested not to do that, but appearantly he has no respect for my wishes. That's a slap in the face and a total disrespect for me as person. He claims to have the highest respect for tapers, but he has not.
As for your suggestion to share only in my circle: that's exactly what I do. I share on a tracker for lossless music where you have to be a member. If you join you know what the rules, written or unwritten, are. The owner of this blog is a member of that lossless tracker, so he knows what the rules are. If you don't agree with those rules, don't join.
He wanted to make a compromise with me, so I answered "ok, let's talk, contact me via Dimeadozen" (that's the tracker for lossless music we're talking about), but he didn't do that and I know why: his identity on Dime would be revealed. You only hide when you know you're doing something which isn't as it should be. In another blog on this site he admitted so much by saying "likely I will get banned from Dime".
Sylvia (scdegraaf on Dime)
I bet Sam Baker would say that a conversion to MP3 couldn't possibly make his sound anymore lossy than it already is. And I mean that with all due respect.
ReplyDeleteI love music, and with all respect to people who want to have the stuff in the best audiophilic quality, it's live, it's never as good as a studio recording. I don't see the point, but OK, to each his own.
ReplyDeleteLike said before, to me it's about music, not about sound. Good music in bad sound quality is still GOOD music. The appreciation of good music will be easier with good sound quality. But for those who do not believe me, listen to some live Neil Young, Tonights the night tour, Oct/Nov 1973. There are hardly good sounding tapes (an exception here and there) but damn, these shows are some of the best music ever made.
Peter
This is not about Flac vs. Mp3...
ReplyDeleteThis is not about space in ours HD...
This is not about bandwidth or portable devices...
This is about confident and self-esteem. If you're a member of Dime is because you have accepted its terms and conditions to open your account. But you've violated that commitment with your behavior here. The music is neither good nor bad, neither sounds good or sounds bad. The music is shared among friends and peers and you're a cheat. Dime is a site of snobs, maybe. Dime is a site of elite, it can be but is not a cheating site. The least you can do is to log in there and let you ban because obviously you do not belong there. You have a little more self-esteem and share music and not what you are doing here.
Please stop cheating.
This guy above me is insane.
ReplyDeletePlease post the long version
ReplyDeleteyes, PLEASE post it I love his stories. Mx
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